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I was on the beta testing team and have been using Beeper for a little over two years now.

The convenience of having an application to house all of your chat networks is amazing.

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[–] admin@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'll take the risk knowing what I know about the Beeper people that I've been working with for over two years.

[–] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 35 points 1 year ago

“I know these guys, trust me” is not a valid security assessment.

[–] irasponsible@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

If you know the team, then that's a pretty good reason to trust them. Only works if you know the team, though.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's fine... for you, right now.

But I (and probably most users) don't know them, over time people come and go, some even change who they are, businesses get sold. Only open source persists.

[–] admin@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thankfully all of the Matrix bridges they created for Beeper are open source.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Ok, ok, I get it... but I'm still wary of a business model based on closed clients. Guess we'll see how it goes.

[–] Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Sounds reasonable to me